Mercury Article: Affordable childcare is absolutely essential 

Childcare is absolutely essential for any parent with young children who doesn’t want to put their career on hold. Without it, parents in Weston or anywhere else find themselves trapped under a glass ceiling where they can’t work a few extra hours to improve their pay, apply for promotions, or…

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The Times: Chancellor must look beyond handouts to ease pain of rising energy bills

This article was written by Ed Birkett & John Penrose and was originally published in The Times newspaper. Energy bills are shooting up, hurting everybody but hitting the least well-off hardest of all. And a bad situation will get even worse when the energy price cap rises again in October,…

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The Times: Rail quango ‘will only strengthen unions’

Planned rail reforms will “strengthen and entrench union power” and “paralyse entire regions”, raising the risk of more strikes, the transport secretary has been warned. Four former rail ministers and the MP John Penrose have written to Grant Shapps warning that proposals for a new quango to oversee the railways…

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